Casket-handle.



E. R. SARGENT.

CASKET HANDLE.

APPLICATION IILED NOV. 12, 1909.

Patented Jan.4,1910.

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E. R. SARGENT.

GASKET HANDLE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 12, 1909.

Patented Jan.4,1910.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD R. SARGENT, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO SARGENT &COMPANY, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

CASKET-HANDLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 4, 1910.

Application filed. November 12, 1909. Serial No. 527,681.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD R. SARGENT, of the city and county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Gasket-Handles, of which the following is a full, clear,and exact description, when taken with the accompanying drawings, whichform a part thereof.

This invention relates to casket handles, and more particularly to theconstruction of the bar or gripping portion of the handle. Bars for thispurpose have been formed of metal tubes, but considerable difiiculty isinvolved when it is desired to form these tubes in any ornamental orunusual form.

In a prior application, Serial N 0. 498,143, filed May 25, 1909, I havedescribed a method of forming the bar in a number of parts adapted to beassembled and united along longitudinal lines.

The present invention relates to an improvement on this type of handlebar, and consists in providing certain additional parts to the separatepieces of the handle bar by which the parts of the bar may be readilyassembled and held together in an eflicient manner.

To this end, the invention consists in the several improvements andcombinations of parts set forth and claimed hereinafter.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 represents a front elevation of acasket handle embodying my invention, Fig. 2, a transverse verticalsection on line 22 of Fig. 1, Fig. 3, a detail view of the end of thebar showing the assembling plates, Fig. l, a side elevation in detail ofone of the parts of the handle bar, Fig. 5, a transverse section throughthe arm and bar of the handle on line 55 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 6, aperspective view of one end of each of the parts of the bar and thelocking sleeve.

In all figures similar letters of reference represent like parts.

In the drawings, the parts designated by the letter A represent thesocket plates which are adapted to be secured to the easket or otherarticle, and support the handle.

B designates the arms of the handles which may be pivoted within thesocket plates in any well known manner.

C designates the handle bar which is formed, as more particularly shownin Figs. 2, 4t and 6, of a plurality of sheet metal plates stamped outsubstantially in U shape in cross section and adapted when joinedtogether to overlap along a longitudinal line or lines, that is, thelateral edges of one of the parts, such as D, overlap the lateral edgesF of the other part E. While the invention is not limited to theparticular form of the parts D and E, I prefer to make them, as shownmore particularly in Fig. 2, each with five sides so that when theyoverlap the bar itself will be octagonal in cross section.

On the ends of each of the parts D and E are provided curved assemblingplates G, which as shown more particularly in Fig. 5, do not overlapwhen the parts D and E are assembled but form arcs of a concentriccircle. A sleeve H is adapted to fit over the curved plates G and holdthem from parting. The sleeve H may, a shown in Fig. 5, fit within thelateral perforation I of the arm B of the handle so that when the knob Kor other device is placed on the end of the bar the sleeve H and thecurved plates G will be entirely concealed. By this means, the parts ofthe handle bar are assembled and held in place without the necessity ofany core or plug projecting out from the ends of the bar, as the arm ofthe handle grips the plates G through the sleeve H. The parts of the barare prevented from be ingcrushed because of the stifiening pro duced bythe overlapping parts.

Having now described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is

1. In a handle for caskets or similar articles, the combination with thearm of the handle; of a handle bar formed of a plurality of partsadapted to overlap each other on longitudinal lines, said parts havingassembling plates projecting from the ends thereof and adapted to beengaged by said arm, substantially as described.

2. In a handle for caskets or similar ar- In Witness whereof I havehereunto set my hand on the 9th day of November, 1909.

EDWARD R. SARGENT.

ticles, the combination with the arm; of a handle bar formed of aplurality of parts adapted to overlap each other on longitudinal linesand having extensions at the ends thereof; and a sleeve engaging saidextensions and adapted to be held by the arm of the handle,substantially as described.

